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Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cold War. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Cold War Manchester Tour from Ian Sanders, Host of the Cold War Conversations History Podcast

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  Ian Sanders, host and creator of the  Cold War Conversations History Podcast pointing out Manchester World War II history. An alarm to get...
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

"He's Got No Damn Common Sense" said Sergeants of Soldiers, But It's True of All of Us

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By the time Thomas Paine wrote  Common Sense in 1775 ,  the idea of common sense was already disappearing.  "He's got no damn commo...
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Formosa Betrayed--A Chronicle of a Cold War Failure

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Formosa Betrayed  by George H. Kerr  The book Formosa Betrayed , George Kerr, traces the history of the island nation that has been in disp...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Digging Up My Cold War Past: Moving Day Soon

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We are moving to a new house next month. Our six kids are in or through college so six bedrooms is more than we need.  As we cleaned the ...
Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Cold War Barracks Roommate Visits for 37 Hours

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At Philadelphia Airport at 6am  During the first months of 1979, my roommate in the barracks of the Wiesbaden Military Community was ...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Who Fights Our Wars: Sgt. 1st Class Thomas, Gospel Worship Leader, Tanker

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In the 70s chaplains came to the Army with graduate degrees and credentials as Priests, Pastors, or Rabbis from their religions....
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

The Topless Shoeshine Parlor: The Draft-Era Military Really was Different

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After Basic Training, the Air Force sent me to a technical school at Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado.   The base is now a comm...
Monday, February 5, 2018

The War We Won, In a Podcast

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In 1991 the Soviet Union ceased to exist. The Cold War ended. There was only one Superpower left in the world. China was still communi...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Cold War Hero Who Served After 1991

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Armand Lattes, Professor Emeritus of the University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the world faced a...
Friday, July 28, 2017

Back in Touch with My Cold War Motorhead

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1968 Renault 16TS, 4-speed on the column. The second car I owned while stationed in West Germany, 1976-79 My 20-country tour across ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017

Cold War Soldier Visits Eastern Europe

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Forty years after I looked across the East-West German border from the turret of an M60A1 tank. Now I am visiting the Warsaw Pact countr...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Cold War Draft Army: Best Army I Served In

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Cold War Training Exercise Since my first enlistment in 1972, I served in three different armies.  I first enlisted during the draft near ...
Tuesday, August 23, 2016

My Love-Hate Relationship with Russia and Ukraine

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A Map of the Former Soviet Union.  Ukraine is the yellow country on the far west. The kind of person we are inside shows itself b...